1. Folk Art & Designing a Community…

2. Folk Art… is fun, playful & whimsical has bright, joyful colours is often about everyday things, people and places doesn’t have to follow rules of perspective (eg. roads head ‘up’, size doesn’t vary in the distance…) Notice the characteristics of folk art in many of the illustrations in this picture book...

3. Folk Art & Designing a Community… Looking at Art! Pop Art Scenes by James Rizzi (Pop Artist = inspired by popular culture) www.JamesRizzi.com

4. Design a Community WatercolourPencil CrayonSharpie

5. Create… Design a Community -Artworks by Mrs. MacDonald’s Gr. 4’s at FES; Feb. 2011

6. Notice what created in the foreground (the ‘close’ part near the bottom of the page) and in the background (far away, at the top of the page).

7. Getting Started… 1.Start at the bottom of the page with a line to create one side of the road 2.Draw the other side of the road, leaving a ‘gap’ for another road to extend 3.Add traffic markings (small rectangles) 4.Attach buildings, trees and vehicles to the side of the road Create… Design a Community

8. TIPS… 1.Use basic, simple shapes to ‘build’ human-made objects (eg. squares, triangles, rectangles… for buildings, bridges, etc.) 2.Use organic shapes (eg. bubble shape) for trees and bushes 3.Tuck objects in behind to create OVERLAP 4.Move up the page S-L-O-W-L-Y so you can OVERLAP! (Try to draw the roads bit by bit, not all at once, building and overlapping everything around them as you go!) 5.Add details (lines and shapes for bricks, siding, shingles, flowers, shutters, windows, pathways…) 6.At the top of the page… Will your community continue right off the page, or will you add a HORIZON LINE to show where the sky meets the ground? Create… Design a Community